Review Summary

This stoner, gross-out comedy has one foot here and one foot there. The here is a politically savvy universe where the title characters, 22-year-old New Jersey roommates who are Chinese-American (John Cho) and Indian-American (Kal Penn), puncture ethnic stereotypes. The other foot is rutted knee-deep in the muck of perpetual puerility according to Hollywood. The movie is a sub-sub-"After Hours" odyssey in which the title characters, while stoned on a Friday night, catch a galloping case of the munchies from a television ad for White Castle burgers and embark on an all-night search through the wilds of New Jersey for the nearest outlet. Along the way the pair is menaced by a gang of extreme sports punks, a rabid raccoon and a computer-generated cougar they use as a getaway horse. Surviving one mishap after another, the pair finally arrive by hang-glider at their junk food shrine. The chemistry between the two is as old as Abbott and Costello.  Stephen Holden